Research Catalog

Title

The anthropology of language : an introduction to linguistic anthropology / Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer.

Author

Ottenheimer, Harriet, 1941-

Publication

Belmont, CA : Wadsworth, c2009.

Details

Description

xxvi, 372 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Anthropological linguistics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 352-362) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Linguistic anthropology -- Language and culture -- The sounds of language -- Words and sentences -- Language in action -- Nonverbal communication -- Writing and literacy -- How and when is language possible? -- Change and choice -- Doing linguistic anthropology.

ISBN

• 9780495508847
• 0495508845

LCCN

^^2008933738